Contagious Fire: New Experimental Evidence on Police Shooting Behavior
This brief discusses how officer shooting behavior in high-stress situations can be powerfully shaped by the actions of peer officers. Officers are more likely to fire, and to fire more rounds, when peers fire first.
Adapted from DeCarlo, J., Dlugolenski, E., & Myers, D. (2024). An experimental test of the contagious fire thesis in policing. Journal of Criminal Justice, 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crimjus.2024.102215.
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